Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

Human Rights in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Recognition and Restraints

This article examines how the 2025 Advisory Opinion (AO) of the International Court of Justice on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change places human rights at the centre of States’ climate specific obligations, with particular emphasis on the right to a healthy envir...

Perspectives on Credit Ratings: A Response to Reviews on “Rating Politics”

Abstract I would like to thank Matthias Thiemann and Yuri Biondi for organizing this symposium on Rating Politics and Jacqueline Best, Quentin Bruneau and Alexandra Ouroussoff for their generous reading and inspiring comments. In my response to them, I elaborate on the strengths...

Trace, Archive, Imaginary

In his major treatise Memory, History, Forgetting, first published in 2000, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) thoroughly examines the relationship between facts, memories, and transmission, both collectively and individually. This ambitious meditation considers the use...

Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa

Abstract This article interrogates the politics of global humanitarianism and its entanglement with racial oppression during Africa’s decolonization by examining the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) first prison visits to Apartheid South Africa in the 1960s. Usin...

International climate finance and emission reductions: what do the last twenty years tell us?

Abstract We empirically examine the impact of international climate finance transfers on recipient countries’ carbon emissions. We analyse the effect of mitigation and adaptation finance using emission data of 164 non-OECD countries from 2000 to 2017. We use a distributed lag mod...

How AI-Based Recommendations on Short Video Platforms Drive Tourists’ Decisions: A Cross-Cultural Study of Destination Authenticity from Vietnam and France

This study examines factors influencing tourist perceptions and intentions toward artificial intelligence (AI)-recommended destinations on short-form video platforms, specifically how algorithmic characteristics and content attributes impact destination perceptions of authenticit...